[Tutor] PySol (fwd)

[Danny Yoo]

Let me forward this to the other tutors; I'm still a little stupid when it
comes to Tkinter stuff, so perhaps others can point you toward Tkinter
resources and demos.  About not being able to get PySol... weird!  That
server's a little slow, but it seems to be working.  Try to download it
again.  Here's the link to the source code:

http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/download/pysol/pysol-4.60-src.tar.gz

(If you still can't get it, I can forward it to you as an attachment.  
Email me privately if this happens.)


Also, there's a lot of example code you can find at the Vaults of
Parnassus:

    http://www.vex.net/parnassus

and I think I did see a few Tkinter projects somewhere in there.  Also,
try emailing the people who package the Python 2.0 binary; perhaps they
can amend the missing Tk demo files.

Quite a few people on tutor have Tkinter experience, so I hope that we can
help you find good resources.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 00:09:59 -0500
From: Timothy M. Brauch <tbrauch@mindless.com>
To: Danny Yoo <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] PySol

Danny Yoo wrote:
> 
> I took a quick look at a Tkinter-based game called PySol:
> 
>     http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol/
> 
> They have source code available, which is great, because it's one of the
> most impressive demonstrations of Tkinter use that I've seen.  (Plus a
> great time waster.  *grin*)

Okay, this is something that has just been annoying to me.  I've heard
people talk about PySol, and even given the link to the game.  But, no
matter how many times I try, no matter what hour of the day I try, I
cannot connect to get the game.  Also, people have talk about Demo
Tkinter programs somewhere in the Python directories, and again, I have
nothing anywhere as demos for Tkinter in Python.

I would really like to start using some Tkinter.  I've gotten decent
(okay, maybe just acceptable) with my Python coding so far.  That is, if
there is something that I want to do, I can hack together something that
might not be pretty but will work.  But, since I have no experience with
Tkinter, or anything like it, I have no real idea where to start. 
However, with some demos, I might have an idea of what can be done.

Oh, this is also for Python 1.5.2 for Windows and just recently upgraded
to Python 2.0 for Windows.  No demos for Tkinter.  However, I am in the
process of creating a Linux box and might eventually leave the evil that
is Windows.  Maybe the Tkinter demos are not part of the Windows
install.

Tim Brauch

P.S.  Yeah, I realize this seems somewhat like a rant, but I really
didn't intend it to be.  I just would like some Tkinter demos like it
seems everyone else has.